Dodge Charger Recalls

The Dodge Charger has 72 recalls spanning 1975 through the 2025 model year, with the most serious recent issue affecting 2024-2025 electric models where an incorrectly installed spring in the transmission can prevent the park function from engaging, allowing the vehicle to roll away.

The current electric generation (2024-2025) has several additional concerns. The instrument panel display can go blank due to a software error, hiding gear selection and warning lights, and the pedestrian alert system may fail to emit exterior sound at low speeds. On 2023 models, the parking brake may be improperly adjusted and fail to hold the vehicle on a slope, and the left rear seat back may not lock upright, allowing cargo to shift into the cabin in a crash.

Going back through the 2018-2022 era, the most serious issue involves 2018-2021 models where the side curtain airbag inflators can rupture and send metal fragments into the cabin. On 2020-2021 models, the windshield may not have been properly bonded and can separate from the body in a crash. The 2022 model has a shifter assembly that can slip out of drive without warning, and the tire pressure monitoring sensors can fail prematurely and stop reporting low pressure. The 2018 model has a transmission park lock rod that may not hold the vehicle in park, and underhood wiring that can cause a stall. Cruise control software on 2014-2018 models can prevent the system from disengaging, and alternators on 2011-2014 models can fail suddenly, stalling the vehicle or, in some cases, short-circuiting and starting a fire. Side impact sensors on 2011-2014 models are calibrated too sensitively and can fire the curtain airbags and seat airbags without a crash. The 2019 model has an incompatible front wheel and brake package where the tire can contact the steering knuckle and suffer sudden pressure loss, and the instrument cluster may fail to illuminate warning lights.

The Takata airbag inflator recalls cover a wide swath of production. Passenger frontal airbag inflators on 2006-2015 models can rupture under deployment, sending metal fragments toward occupants, with the highest risk on vehicles in high-humidity climates. The 2013-2014 model years also have a separate passenger airbag propellant degradation issue that can cause over-forceful deployment. On the drivetrain side, 2014-2017 AWD models have front driveshaft bolts that can loosen and let the shaft disconnect, and 2015-2018 pursuit police models with AWD and V8 engines have a front driveshaft universal joint that can seize or fracture and drop the shaft onto the road. The 2013 AWD model has a transmission output shaft that can fracture and cut drive power entirely. A 2015 SRT model with the 6.2L supercharged engine has a fuel rail hose that can leak fuel near hot engine components, and 2017 Hellcat-engined models have oil cooler hoses that can fail and spray oil onto the windshield or hot surfaces.

Earlier production from 2006-2010 includes driver frontal airbag inflators that can rupture in a crash, brake tubes on 2006 2.7L-engined models that can wear through from contact with the EGR tube and cause both fluid loss and an engine compartment fire, and a park pawl anchor shaft on 2006 models that